Cash Flow Management

Visibility, discipline and forward-looking control for businesses that cannot afford uncertainty.

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The problem we solve

Cash flow is the single point of business failure, yet many companies manage it reactively, discovering liquidity pressure only when payments fall due, debt accumulates, or revenue timing fails to match cost load.

Cash flow pressure rarely arrives suddenly; rather, it accumulates quietly through:

  • Delayed debtor collections

  • Having employee expenses that are high relative to utilisation

  • Unpriced scope-creep or discounting behaviours

  • Inventory timing mismatches

  • Reliance on government grants and R&DTI refunds with uncertain timing

  • Suppliers on tighter terms than customers

  • Growth outpacing working capital capacity

  • Capital raising assumptions not reflected in runway reality

Mid-market and startups face even sharper risk. Growth consumes cash faster than first-time founders expect, and cash flow reporting often lags behind real-world cash behaviour. Without a forward-looking cash position, leaders make decisions without a clear understanding of their runway.

Our role is to replace uncertainty with control, clearly identifying and modelling cash flow to provide highly accurate predictions.

Our approach

We manage cash flow through a CFO lens as an executive discipline, not an accounting obligation. We design systems that anticipate pressure, allocate capital deliberately and give leadership the ability to act weeks or months before liquidity tightens.

  1. Rolling Cash Forecasts — Not Static Tables
    We build client-specific weekly and monthly cash projection models, including invoicing cadence and revenue conversion timing, rather than spreadsheets that become obsolete after a single update.

  2. Scenario-Based Liquidity Planning
    We model downside, base, and accelerated cases, identifying key assumptions and risks, cash runway and implications, and whether the growth pace or runway is financially sustainable.

  3. Debtor and Working Capital Control
    We assist our clients in establishing transparent debtor recovery frameworks, clarifying receivable ageing, implementing disciplined follow-up processes, and reducing cash flow delays.

  4. Supplier & Outflow Optimisation
    Our cash flow models identify supplier terms, batch payment cycles, and forecast tax (Payroll Tax, BAS, PAYG) liabilities before they crystallise to inform an accurate cash runway.

  5. Capital Sequencing & Runway Extension
    Modelling whether growth requires capital, how much, when, and under which funding mechanism, so capital isn’t raised late, distressed or diluted unnecessarily.

  6. Reporting
    Our cash flow models are reported weekly and monthly, with a level of detail that builds management, board, and investor confidence.

Who we work with

Our clients come from diverse backgrounds and industries, seeking our support to solve unfamiliar commercial challenges or to augment their experience during critical periods of growth or transformation. Our cash flow modelling is designed for boards, executive teams, business owners, and entrepreneurs as they scale their businesses, navigate major transactions, or pursue significant strategic objectives.

We work predominantly with mid-market companies, high-growth scale-ups and founder-led organisations generating between $2 million and $200 million in annual revenue. Our work spans sectors with meaningful regulatory, operational or commercial risk exposures, including technology, defence, government consulting, energy-adjacent markets, digital services, manufacturing, professional services and health.

Cash flow support for companies that are experiencing financial difficulties

When businesses face cash flow strain, visibility, control, and pace of decision-making become critical. Auscorporate CFO Advisory practice is there to support organisations experiencing cash pressure by restoring clarity over their runway, re-forecasting financial outcomes, and stabilising liquidity.

We model scenarios, identify cost levers, manage creditor engagement, and help determine whether restructuring, capital injection or commercial repositioning is required. Our role is to convert uncertainty into actionable direction, enabling leaders to navigate financial difficulty with discipline, confidence, and a clear path forward.

What we deliver

Clients who engage Auscorporate for CFO Advisory - cash flow management services benefit from integrated risk and opportunity management as part of our broader advisory work. We also provide cash flow management as a standalone service for clients requiring targeted support for a specific scenario, transaction or strategic decision.

Our deliverables typically include:

  • Multi-week liquidity forecasts and rolling 26/52-week models

  • Daily analysis for cash-critical decisions, e.g. M&A transactions, restructuring, FX hedging settlements, International settlements and other capital-intensive activities

  • Cash burn and runway modelling for capital-dependent businesses, including grouped entities

  • Working capital and debtor-recovery frameworks

  • Supplier negotiation and payment-cadence strategies

  • Cashflow dashboards for boards, investors & lenders

  • Early-warning risk signals and trigger-based decision controls

  • Liquidity scenarios, including stress-test and scenario-based modelling

  • Integrated cashflow + BAS + payroll + AP/AR oversight

  • Capital requirement modelling and raise sizing guidance

Why engage us?

Where traditional firms present lag-based cash reports, we build forward-control systems that give CEOs, founders and boards the ability to act before a cash flow risk eventuates.

Having led companies across technology, defence, digital services, manufacturing, and capital-dependent product businesses, we’ve lived the urgency of cash pressure from missed invoices, payroll deadlines, tax shocks, capital expenditures overruns, and investor scrutiny. We know how small changes in pricing, utilisation, stock timing or sales velocity can compress months of runway into weeks.

Clients engage Auscorporate because we offer:

  • Lived executive experience in running cash-constrained companies - not abstract reporting

  • Cash flow models that integrate growth, cost, timing & risk

  • Commercially-minded decisions to support growth in a cash-constrained operating environment

  • Proactive liquidity management with early alarm systems

  • Independence and strategic judgement, founders’ trust

  • Advisory that improves decision-making speed and reduces panic

Case Studies

  • Case 1 | Restoring Cash Flow Control to Support Sustainable Growth - Software Development client

    A fast-scaling software development startup engaged Auscorporate after experiencing inconsistent revenue timing, rising supplier outflows and growing uncertainty around its monthly cash position. While the business was generating strong sales, poor cash visibility made it difficult for leadership to forecast cash runway, commit to growth investment or make confident decisions. The problem was not profitability — it was flow, timing and discipline of managing cash.

    Auscorporate undertook a detailed cash flow diagnostic, tracing inflows and outflows back to source, examining debtor behaviour, supplier terms, payment cadence and the working capital cycle. We identified delays in invoice generation, extended payment terms granted to customers without approval, and several large unforecast expenses that had eroded liquidity without early visibility.

    Working with our client’s finance, operations and leadership, we built a forward-looking cash management model that moved the business away from static monthly reporting to a dynamic, weekly planning environment. We introduced debtor-follow-up cycles,supplier renegotiations and scenario-based forecasting to test sensitivity to sales volatility and cost movements. Within six weeks, the business had transitioned from reactive decisions to proactive governance supported by clear financial visibility.

    With strengthened cash flow governance, predictable inflows and improved working capital discipline, the organisation was able to restore confidence in its payment cycle, improve supplier relationships and make informed investment decisions. Leadership now steers growth with clarity over liquidity, burn rate and commercial capacity — supported by a repeatable cash flow framework designed to scale with the business.

  • Case 2 | Operational cash flow review for a Government Professional Services Supplier

    A rapidly scaling Professional Services group engaged Auscorporate to assess short-term liquidity risk and assist the board in navigating a tight working capital cycle. While the business held a strong government-contracted revenue pipeline, the timing of receipts, billing uncertainty and accelerated wage obligations created pressure on weekly cash availability. Leadership needed clarity on whether the company’s overdraft was sufficient, when risk peaked, and what financial decisions would be triggered if invoicing did not complete in time.

    Auscorporate developed a forward-looking cash flow model mapping bank and over-draft balances against scheduled outgoings over the following quarter. Scenario logic was introduced to assess the impact of billing delays, contract under-delivery, and reduced utilisation. Modelling identified that cash requirements would exceed available facilities. Alternative measures, including spend compression, accelerated invoicing and a review of time-and-materials (T&M) billing, were recommended to protect continuity and buying power during this period. 

    The business gained forward visibility of cash exposure, funding thresholds and decision checkpoints. Management was able to plan scenario responses in advance rather than reactively, thereby preserving operational stability while advancing strategic finance discussions.

FAQs

Do you provide ongoing weekly or four-hourly cash flow monitoring?

We can provide cash flow monitoring at these levels or even on a daily basis; we align the frequency of monitoring with the liquidity risks a business needs to manage. Beyond monitoring what cash has been spent, we focus on forecasting the likely cash spend to provide business owners with insights that help reduce the risks associated with constrained cash flow.

Can you help us extend our cash flow runway without needing to raise capital or obtain finance?

Most of the time. Improving cash flow can include addressing delinquent debts, reducing a business’s cash operating costs, and negotiating with suppliers, among other measures. We help our clients improve their cash flow through a holistic approach to financial performance.

Do you work with internal finance teams and accountants?

Yes, we regularly collaborate with internal teams and accountants.

Can you manage cash flow in a multi-entity group?

Yes, we have extensive experience in managing complex cash flow environments that rely on inter-company cash flow, including those that maintain a treasury function or those that must report a group-consolidated cash flow position.

How accurate can cash flow modelling be?

We model for volatility and sensitivity to lower the uncertainty of our cash flow forecasts. Identifying sensitivities is a key part of the process because they help determine how much uncertainty a company can handle before risk becomes active.

Do you assist companies experiencing cash flow issues?

Yes. We have extensive experience in addressing urgent cash flow matters. We can help companies’ clients experiencing cash flow issues by providing a rapid response, including assisting with debtor and supplier management.

Do you work with Start-ups?

Yes. We regularly work with founders and early-stage teams to help them gain confidence in their cash flow position.

What we bring to a startup is deep experience in investor expectations, capital markets, commercial modelling and financial pragmatism.

We help founders strike the right balance between operating in a high-risk environment and capturing opportunities that are unique to an entrepreneurial context.

Can you help us evaluate our cash flow assumptions?

Yes. We help founders work through assumptions and test sensitivities in cash flow with structured analysis, scenario modelling and independent guidance.

Can you prepare a cash flow model that utilises multiple currencies?

Yes. We are experienced at modelling cash flow scenarios where multiple currencies and FX exposure need to be managed.